KAI Design & Communication staff attended the 13th Annual YES Entrepreneurship Conference on Saturday, April 17, 2010 as one of the exhibitor. Through out the day, our staff attended various workshops and got the chance to meet many wonderful business people at KAI Design’s booth.
Here are what we have to share:
Andrew Chen – Founder of KAI Design:
What an amazing day the YES Entrepreneurship Conference was! Personally I LOVE the encouragement words from the keynote speaker – Inder Bedi, founder of MATT & NAT. Inder was real and sincere, which is a rare-find in the business world. His key advice for entrepreneurs is to be passionate about what we do, which I 100% agree! It is refreshing to see a down-to-earth guy who believes in what he does and excel in his craft! Its people like Inder that inspires me to be a better businessman! The one-hour session with him was priceless!
Luis London – Design Consultant at KAI Design:
We had a great time meeting people, networking and attending this exciting event. The workshops I attended were very interesting, it is incredible how much one can learn and achieve in this type of events.
I attended Chris Emergui’s workshop, called eMarketing Tactics to Build Your Business. I found that he really knows what he is talking about, He thought us how to market services and products online without spending a fortune on it! Also about how Social Media (Yes, Facebook, Twitter and others) can help your business to grow! He specifically showed how to deal with Social Media, manage the whole process and lead us to very interesting links, in order for us to make it all happen. His presentation was full of interesting and useful advice. Sometimes we tend to think that we already know how to deal with eMarketing and the Internet to promote our services or products, well, Chris’s conference proved that we can always learn something new.
I also attended Jason Hughes conference about Sustainable Growth and Co-ops, he is the founder and manager of Coop La Maison Verte. His workshop was very interactive, he talked about how a Co-op can help local commerce to grow, the advantages of creating a Co-op and the different types of them that exist, each one having a specific role. Jason’s Co-op offer ecological solutions for your home as well as resources for responsible consumption. Since at Kai Design we are eco-friendly and care for the environment we found that La Maison Verte concept is very interesting and definitely fit with our business philosophy as well.
Note: Co-ops are a business organization owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. They help to make Social economy get stronger as well, which is great for local businesses!
I really enjoy when I can interact with interesting people at the Yes conference. People also came to our booth to talk to us and wanted to have more information about what we do and how we can help them with their graphic design needs. Andrew had the great idea of having our business card with a little fortune cookie treat, everybody loved it and enjoyed it. We gave away a small pamphlet with information about KAI Design and our what we do, it was printed in 100% recycled paper (enviro 100) showing that we care for the environment and put action into it as well.
Overall the experience was perfect, and I believe that we made friends and got the opportunity to make contact with potential clients, people who we can work together and help them with their Graphic Design, Web and Print needs.
Check out the photos of the event at: www.bit.ly/do8UWV
